Tiffany Jenkins, writer and author

Dr Tiffany Jenkins is a writer and author, whose next book: Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life, will be published by Picador.

She is the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series A Narrative History of Secrecy, on the history of secrecy, and Contracts of Silence which investigated the proliferation of non disclosure agreements (NDS).

Her last book,  Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should Stay There (OUP) was published to critical acclaim – reviewed in the Sunday Times as “an outstanding achievement, clear-headed, wide-ranging and incisive.”  She is also the author of Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Crisis of Cultural Authority, and editor of Political Culture: Soft Interventions and Nation Building. 

She was a columnist for the Scotsman for over 5 years. Other writing credits include the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, New Philosopher, Englesberg Ideas, the Literary Review and the Spectator. Additional Broadcasting credits includes the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Beauty and the Brain’, which explored what science can tell us about art. She host the podcast Behind the Scenes at the Museum which examines the controversies rocking the cultural world, speaks regularly at conferences around the world is an experienced facilitator and an accomplished keynote speaker. She appears on podcasts, speaks at academic and public conferences, and on panels, such as this one on: who owns culture?

She is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh; and a former Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Her Phd is in sociology; her BSC in art history. 

 You can follow her writing and essays on Substack: Strangers and Intimates.